Once your SD card has been formatted, drag all the files in the extracted NOOBS folder and drop them onto the SD card drive.

The necessary files will then be transferred to your SD card.

When this process has finished, safely remove the SD card and insert it into your Raspberry Pi.

FIRST BOOT

Plug in your keyboard, mouse and monitor cables.

Now plug in the USB power cable to your Pi.

Your Raspberry Pi will boot, and a window will appear with a list of different operating systems that you can install. We recommend that you use Raspbian – tick the box next to Raspbian and click on Install.

Raspbian will then run through its installation process. Note this can take a while.

When the install process has completed, the Raspberry Pi configuration menu (raspi-config) will load. Here you are able to set the time and date for your region and enable a Raspberry Pi camera board, or even create users. You can exit this menu by using Tab on your keyboard to move to Finish.

LOGGING IN AND ACCESSING THE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE

The default login for Raspbian is username: pi with the password: raspberry. Note you will not see any writing appear when you type the password. This is a security feature in Linux.